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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Wake Cnty Board of Education

5:08-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2008

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2008

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) access authority. On September 16, 2008, Disability Rights North Carolina, North Carolina’s P&A, filed this lawsuit against the Wake County School District (Wake County) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Represented by itself, Disability Rights North Carolina alleged that Wake County violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights of Act (DD Act) and Protection and Advocacy o…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights NC v. Rummage

1:21-cv-00220 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 19, 2021

Closed Date: April 19, 2021

This is a case about a protection and advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority for police investigation records. On March 19, 2021, Disability Rights North Carolina filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Disability Rights North Carolina alleged that the Chief of the Lexington Police Department, acting in his official capacity, violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) when the Department refused t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lindsay v. Torn and Glasser, Inc

2:17-cv-02179 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

On March 21, 2017, this suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiff, a California resident who suffered from arthritis, alleged that a store in Los Angeles violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California state law. Specifically, she claimed that the store's parking lot and transaction counter were not accessible for individuals with physical disabilities. The plaintiff, represented by the Center for Disability Access, sought …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Association of the Deaf v. Florida

1:18-cv-21232 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2021

On April 3, 2018, the National Association of the Deaf and a private plaintiff filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued the State of Florida; its Senate and the Senate President; the House of Representatives (the House) and the House Speaker; and the Florida State University Board of Trustees (FSU) and the president of Florida State University under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Allah v. Thomas

2:15-cv-05593 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2015

Closed Date: April 9, 2021

On October 9, 2015 plaintiff filed a complaint against several prison officials and medical providers at SC-Chester, a state prison in Pennsylvania. Plaintiff, an incarcerated individual with chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other illnesses filed his lawsuit under Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging violations of the First and Eighth Amendments. The case was assigned to Judge Gene E.K. Pratter. Plaintiff alleged that he was improperly den…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
H.P. v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago

1:18-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit challenging the Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) and Illinois State Board of Education's policies for providing special education services to children who do not speak English fluently. The case was filed on January 29, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs claimed that the school district systematically fail to provide CPS students with disabilities, whose parents are Limited English Proficient (“LEP”), with a free app…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mason v. City of Huntsville

5:10-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2010

Closed Date: March 13, 2014

On October 15, 2010, two private plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs asserted claims against the City of Huntsville, Alabama (the City) for injunctive relief, attorney’s fees, and costs pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act). They also sought an order requiring the City to undertake a self-evaluation of its program…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (“Phoenix”). According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, intended to examine whether the City and the Department had a pattern or practice of violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of its citizens, the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Anchorage School District v. M.G

3:17-cv-00157 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Closed Date: March 27, 2019

This case is about whether an Alaska school district was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide a student with blindness and other disabilities with an education a specialized school in Massachusetts. The student was a young man with multiple disabilities, including autism, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive impairments, and impending blindness. His Individualized Education Plan (IEP) established he needed to attend a school for the blind in order to ad…